Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months. It is possible that the President's tranquilizing tactics may work-but hardly in the long run. "Instead of cooling the crisis," says Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League and a leading spokesman for black moderation, "this studied nonactivity is adding dangerous fuel to the pent-up rage and frustration of inhabitants of our black ghettos." As if to prove Young's point, the man chosen by Nixon to promote his black capitalism program-a major campaign pledge-angrily resigned last week. "It's useless to go on like this," said Philip...
...Melchett has been frustrated in efforts to cut costs, partly by the government's policy of protecting the nationalized coal mines. BSC is not allowed to import low-cost foreign coal, and purchases of foreign oil are taxed extravagantly; as a result, steel's fuel bills are excessively high. To pay them, and the costs of modernization, Melchett proposed steel price increases totaling $128 million a year...
...Under severe pressure from the Soviet-supported conservatives, Husak has dismantled the last vestiges of Dubček's promising "Springtime of Freedom." The press, which was free and sassy for a few heady months in 1968, once again is tightly controlled. The journalists whose daring reporting helped fuel the Czechoslovaks' demands for reform have either been sacked or effectively muzzled. Radio and television now echo only the party line. The student union, the stronghold of the reformist youth, has been disbanded...
With that ironic understatement, a doctor at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston last week summarized an increasing concern among some scientists that returning astronauts may contaminate the earth with strange and perhaps dangerous bugs. His statement added fuel to a controversy that broke into the open last month when it was revealed that NASA had relaxed its elaborate quarantine plans for the Apollo 11 crew (TIME...
...trainers for familiarization flights. He searched quietly for pilots and demanded, with reason, that they be experienced. Studying press photographs of their planes in Africa last week, a Malmö Flygindustri executive pointed out with a shudder that the trainers were so overloaded with extra fuel tanks, rockets and radio compass that they were "technically" unable to leave the ground...